# Black Pearls VC

> Black Pearls VC is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 60 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Gdansk, Poland
- Total investments: 60
- Last investment: Nov 2024
- Lead investor: 65%
- Last fund: Mar 2017
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/black-pearls-advisory
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/BlackPearlsVC
- Website: http://blackpearls.vc/
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/BlackPearlsVC

Black Pearls VC is a VC fund in Gdansk focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. We are an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in leading tech startups with defensible technology and the potential to become market leaders. We invest all around Europe, concentrating specifically on the Baltic Sea Region. As Black Pearls VC we are sector agnostic and B2B focused with a successful track record of investments inareas such as: Digital Health, Enterprise Software, Fintech, Future of Work, Deep Tech, among others.We are usually one of the first investors in the company, helping founders scale and achieve global reach. We are the first Polish VC fund in Kauffman Fellows – a global network of 500+ leading VCs.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $165k–$3.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $191k–$1.8M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 12 | 20% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 8 | 13% |
| FinTech | 5 | 8% |
| Analytics | 5 | 8% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 8% |

109 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 36 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 10 | 17% |
| Convertible Note | 2 | 3% |
| Series A | 1 | 2% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Poland | 26 | 43% |
| United States | 7 | 12% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 7% |
| Latvia | 2 | 3% |
| Sweden | 2 | 3% |

8 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Hubert Szczołek | CFO | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hubert-szczolek |
| Maciej Skórkiewicz | Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maciej-skorkiewicz |
| Marcin Kowalik | Managing Partner | 17 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marcin-kowalik |
| Tomasz Woźniak | Principal | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tomasz-wozniak-3 |
| Aleksander Dobrzyniecki | Partner | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aleksander-dobrzyniecki |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sauna by Wordware | Wordware allows users to create and host their entire LLM stack for AI application development. It offers tools for building, training, and deploying language models. The platform simplifies the integration of various components necessary for AI solutions. Users can manage their applications and data within a unified environment. | $30M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| Certifier | Our digital credentials infrastructure has everything you need to generate certificates. A certificate builder, templates, emails, security, and analytics. | $700K | Seed | Oct 04, 2023 |  |
| Traxlo | We are at the technology and retail industries intersection. Our longtime experience in the industry taught us that only the right innovation has the potential to make a positive impact. Thus we aim to make our solutions as seamless as possible to be able to add only benefits to every worker who uses our apps and to every retail store manager whohas lots on her plate, day in, day out. | $645.3K | Pre-Seed | May 24, 2023 |  |
| InSoil | HeavyFinance is a borderless crowdlending platform where farmers meet retail and institutional investors. We underwrite farmers, facilitate transactions, and service loans. | $3.3M | Seed | Mar 23, 2023 |  |
| InSoil | HeavyFinance is a borderless crowdlending platform where farmers meet retail and institutional investors. We underwrite farmers, facilitate transactions, and service loans. | $3.3M | Seed | Mar 23, 2023 |  |
| Tapline | Digital funding platform providing subscription-based companies access to frictionless capital | $1.8M | Pre-Seed | Dec 07, 2022 |  |
| Surveily | Surveily applies Artificial Intelligence to increase safety in manufacturing plants. It detects threats in real-time and allows for early prevention and mitigation. We cater to the most dangerous sectors that require an ever increasing safety parameters such as chemical, gas and oil. It integrates with existing CCTV infrastructure to minimisedeployment cost. It requires no internet so client can operate on their own infrasatructure and remove places. | $982.9K | Seed | Sep 29, 2022 |  |
| Autenti | Autenti is a platform for document authorization and contracting via the Internet. It facilitates the signing of many papers and accelerates the working mode in companies. | $8.5M | Series B | Sep 13, 2022 |  |
| Ondato | Ondato provides a complete compliance management suite in regards to KYC and AML solutions. From remote photo and live video identity verification, and biometric user authentication, to data monitoring, screening, due-diligence, and risk scoring - all under a single platform. Ondato combines artificial intelligence & human expert analysis toensure 0% fraud tolerance for both legal and physical entity onboarding while delivering a fast, customer-friendly experience. We stand out among our competitors with the ability to deliver the perfect solution based on client's individual requirements, and offer maximum flexibility along the process. |  | Convertible Note | Aug 01, 2022 |  |
| GoCardless | GoCardless is the global leader in recurring payments. GoCardless' global payments network and technology platform take the pain out of getting paid for businesses with recurring revenue. More than 40,000 businesses worldwide, from multinational corporations to SMBs, transact through GoCardless each month, and the business processes $10bn ofpayments each year. GoCardless now has four offices in the UK, France, Australia, and Germany. |  |  | Jul 26, 2022 |  |

10 of 60 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Antler](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/antler-be9c) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [bValue Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bvalue-angels) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
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- [Kogito Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kogito-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Startup Wise Guys](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/startup-wise-guys) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Black Pearls VC invest in?

Black Pearls VC invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 60 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Poland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Black Pearls VC's check size?

Black Pearls VC typically joins rounds of $165k–$3.3M at Seed and $191k–$1.8M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Black Pearls VC participates in.

### How do I contact Black Pearls VC?

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### Who are the partners at Black Pearls VC?

The team at Black Pearls VC includes Hubert Szczołek (CFO), Maciej Skórkiewicz (Partner) and Marcin Kowalik (Managing Partner), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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